Garawan languages
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| Garawan | |
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| Yanyi | |
| Geographic distribution: |
Northern Territory and Queensland |
| Linguistic classification: | Macro-Pama–Nyungan?
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| Glottolog: | garr1260[1] |
Garawan and Tangkic (green). Garawan is the group inland.
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The Garawan languages (Garrwan), or Yanyi, are a small language family of Australian Aboriginal languages once spoken in northern Australia.
The languages are:
Gunindiri is almost entirely unknown.[2]
Garawan may be related to the Pama–Nyungan languages, though this is not accepted in Bowern 2011.[3] The languages are close: Dixon (2002) says that it should be straightforward to reconstruct proto-Garawa–Wanji.
References[edit]
- ^ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Garrwan". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
- ^ Gunindiri at the Australian Indigenous Languages Database, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
- ^ Bowern, Claire. 2011. "How Many Languages Were Spoken in Australia?", Anggarrgoon: Australian languages on the web, December 23, 2011 (corrected February 6, 2012)
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